Technical basis of society and its environmental safety

Abstract

The article reviewed the status of the range of technical systems serving society: utilities, plant and equipment of industrial enterprises of the military complex, the degree of wear, the level of modernization - is not only evidence of technological progress, a kind of indicator-building, societal development. Determined that the technical systems in the service of a person to have the ability to aging - physical and mental, can refuse to carry out their functions, and even pose a direct or indirect threat to the health and life of the individual. And in certain circumstances - be a threat to society as a whole. Determine the cause of environmental accidents and disasters by industry in Ukraine. The calculation of the relative performance of engineering systems in various industries. It is concluded that in Ukraine, a huge number of local technical systems that are already under no circumstances are not suitable for use and are subject to destruction due to physical wear and tear, as they are already the real sources of operational and environmental accidents and disasters .